Monday, April 27, 2015

Basketball Shooting Heatmaps

Last week Maps Mania linked to CartoDB's Referee Map, an animated heatmap of one soccer referee's movements during a
soccer game. The map uses CartoDB's Torque library to animate the
referee's heat map over the ninety minutes of a single match.

Player heatmaps are obviously very popular in other sports. In the NBA shooting heatmaps can be used to reveal the individual shooting patterns of different players, showing where they are most dangerous on the court. 2014-15 NBA Regular Season : Field
Goal Shooting Patterns is a CartoDB map that shows the shooting heatmaps of five players during the 2014-15 season.

Using the map you can view and compare the shooting heatmaps of Stephen Curry, Anthony Davis, James Harden, LaMarcus Aldridge and LeBron James.